I think they will suck at first, and if they can take harsh criticism and swallow their pride then they will end up graduating Chauschool just like me. Anyone who plays a new role vs players with years of experience are bound to have bad games, but I think they have potential

Korea is the best region. I thought China was before all-stars, but it really changed my mentality about how many talented players there are in Korea vs China, and how stagnant the Chinese meta is. Korea has a lot of interesting and unique teams with all different playstyles, while China is unable to adapt and compete with a faster pace.

Even in our match vs China, we were able to crush them early game. China's pace is slow and predictable, while Korea competes to see how badly they can outplay and stomp the enemy. Korea's mentality is better for breeding better players and having stronger teamwork. They have the best coaches and infrastructure, and therefore the best allstars.

Chauster taught me pretty much everything I know about the game. I think one of his best quotes of all time go something like "you're so retarded that you get yourself in a position where you have to 1v3 or outplay everyone to live, but if you were a smarter player you'd never even get in those positions in the first place. You just so happen to have the mechanics to randomly luck out and look good when you should be dead"

Gold like that you'll only get from Chauschool, and I've been on hiatus since he left for the jungle. I'm glad to have him back because he's the one person I can count on to make me better

Xpecial on the other hand is solid, probably the best support in NA currently. He's got no downsides or weaknesses as far as I can see. He plays everything, communicates well, has great game knowledge and map awareness. He's also a really cool guy, which goes a long way. I'll miss him and the big plays we made at Allstars

I learned that there's no such thing as best, only world-class. If you strive to be the best you'll never get there, but you can fall a bit short and end up world-class. Anyone can have a bad day and lose to another godlike player, but it's all about the bigger picture

My initial thoughts on Madlife was that he was very overrated, and not nearly as good as people made him out to be. I was wrong. He has a sixth sense when it comes to skillshots, and it reminds me of when I played nothing but Blitz. After playing something for so long, you come to a point where you just know exactly where someone is going to move without even thinking about it.

It's very good to see an answer like this from a guy that knows what he is talking about. Yellowpete is a very nice guy, consistent in his role. The fact that he is quiet as a person leaves room for the flak he is receiving. I hope some people see this and stop bashing on him.
Thanks for doing this AMA double and GL in the immediate future in the summer split!

I feel very meh to be back in the gaming house to be quite honest. I was looking forward to a vacation where I might travel all around Asia and take my mind off LoL, but I spent the LCS Spring ending doing Allstar stuff, and now we'll have to go crazy on practice with this new roster change and Summer Season coming up

I'm just tired of playing all day every day, and I want a goddamn break but it's not possible to get one.

Yes, it's the only thing that gives me a spark of excitement is playing with Chauster again. He's the best friend (edit: o shit I forgot about Travis he's p good too) and smartest player I've met in the last 2 years

Fix your sleep schedule so you have a constantly sufficient sleep time every night. Be there for every team practice on time, but don't play or idle (!! that is very important. Idle-activities like watching anime or browsing reddit etc are TERRIBLE for your needs right now) any more than you absolutely have to.

Now as the last step, find something for you to do which is maybe something new and keeps your head off while doing it. For example, pick up swimming or something.

If you do that correctly, sleep well, minimize your idle time, get yourself involved in something new all while being there for your team exactly when they need it, it can work as a mini-vacation every day after you done the deed.

Edit to the people downvoting me: I'm just suggesting him help so he doesn't get burn-out before the split even starts. He got some stressful months behind himself, and some more to come. Burn-out is a serious issue if you're working in a job that only works when you're 100% there with your head and your heart.

I was looking forward to traveling and touring Asia or doing something that kept my mind off of League for more than a day. I can keep myself busy and motivated to improve at any time, but I'm slowly burning out because I've done more or less the same thing for 6 months straight.

Don't pick Ezreal into Cait -_- I already knew it too, I guess I never learned my lesson hard enough

Not much, Korea outclassed us in every way

Slim, the infrastructure here makes it so we can't find competent training partners at the rate that Korea does. Talent breeds talent over there, and if you look at Velocity or Quantic and compare them to NLB (the Korean amateur circuit), you will quickly come to realize that NA has a distinct lack of talent

He suffered the same thing I did when I laned with Loco - lack of trust in lane because his support is subpar. He ended up playing a lot more passive than he normally does and didn't really do anything except for get bullied around

ya I feel like I've definitely regressed as a player because of the way we've been grooming supports. With Chauster back, he can teach me instead of the other way around. It's not so much Chauster carrying me as much as him controlling my movements and breaking all the bad habits I've accumulated over the last few months

Is your confidence back after allstars? Most people feel that out of all of the AD's, you played the best given the circumstance. Also, was the CLG roster change a result of your bot lane experience with Xpecial making you think that maybe you needed a top tier support again to give you the best chance of winning?

In the first blood play from the first game against the LPL squad, how much of it was planned/confident, and how much of it was just reacting and trying to just stay alive? (Was Xpecial like "don't worry, I got this" or was he like "Oh, ok, I'm still alive. Lets keep going then.")

nah but I did hang out with a Shanghainese translator after we were done. It's always nice being able to speak in a Shanghainese-English jumble as I'm used to from childhood. She was also pretty cute (no offense to Chinese girls, but most mainland Chinese girls were GOD TIER UGLY)

Why do you think Jiji is worth it in the jungle instead of getting someone who specializes in that role. Likewise for Nientonsoh (unless you plan on having Nientonsoh only play Corki/Vayne/Quinn etc top).

I think he's a strong pick in general but only if you can get ahead early. There's a cutoff point in levels where Graves sucks because he hasn't gotten his BT yet, and you need to hit it or else you don't do anything

Mechanically strong and one of NA's best. I don't know how he thinks about the game but I hope he's ready to become a sponge, because all the solo queue playstyle and lack of trust in your teammates to do the right thing need to be broken asap

I've been told he has the right mentality to be groomed into playing any lane, and it will be fun to work with and watch him evolve his playstyle

BotRK is a purely laning and 2v2 item. It's not very good in teamfights and gives you wonky item pathing after you build it. I feel like I can win lane without it, and opt to go for more greedy lategame/teamfighting oriented builds

Isn't BotRK (the active) some extra personal peel when you get dived by bruisers, which creates more possibilities for kiting and survivability, especially with champions like vayne who are kinda reliant on kiting in teamfights?

When CS'ing, do you use A -> left click or do you just left click. I've been trying out what works best but I found it a little hard to find a balance between A -> left click and right click to move aswell, but what do you pefer and how do you train it? :)

I have developed my mechanics to the point where I rarely use a-move, and all my cheesy ancient keybind shortcuts are all gone now. I play on default settings and click on the enemy when I want to attack him, it's that simple

You often speak about "fundamentals". Since so many players and botlanes lack what you call "fundamentals" how is one supposed to understand the balance and the fundamentals of lanes and matchups?

I try to watch streams and spectate high elo games to understand more about positioning, trading, warding but if most of top team botlanes have what you call "very weak fundamentals" how is one supposed to get them? You say yourself that before Chauschool you understood nothing about botlane and I find you being a smart and skilled guy, so what is one supposed to do?

you just have to understand what the enemy jungler/bot lane can do to you and play a theorycrafted game in your head, and see what the proper response would be.

What if Sona Graves harasses you with an auto + Q on the first CS you try to get in lane. Now you have 20g and took 300 damage, so what was the right response? You should have backed off and used their harass against them by coordinating with your support for a turn on the CS.

You have to know every matchup in the game, which levels give you power spikes and which levels give your opponent an advantage. What runes and builds you need to go to cheese certain matchups, or which ones are so impossible that you have to just 2v1 and swap until you reach a certain item threshold.

You have to be ready to react to any situation, whether it's a sneaky jungle gank or mass pink wards, or if they freeze the lane and the jungler can be somewhere. 50% of the game is won just by knowing what to do before it happens, and the other 50% is executing it.

I don't think many players think about the game 24/7. When I take a shit or go to sleep or I'm eating lunch, I think about LoL.